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1.Cooling
blood and arrest bleeding
This drug
can be used to treat hemoptysis, hematemesis, epistaxis, hematuria,
hemafecia, metrorrhagia and metrostaxis, etc. which are due
to heat in the blood system. This is a drug for astringing
and cooling blood and arresting bleeding. It can be used alone
or in combination with other drugs for cooling blood and arresting
bleeding, such as Radix Rehmanniae, Folium Nelumbinis, etc.
In treating bleeding due to cold of deficiency type, the drug
can be used in combination with Folium Artemisiae Argri, Rhizoma
Zingiberis Praeparata,etc.
2.Promoting
the growth of hair and blackening hair
This drug
can be used to treat deficiency of blood due to blood-heat,
baldness after disease, or premature graying of hair seen
in young Radix Polygoni Multiflori, Fructus Ligustri Lucidi,
Radix Rehmanniae, etc.
Besides,
this drug can also be used relieve cough and dispel phlegm
and can be used to treat cough and asthma with much sputum,
It can also be used to treat abnormal leukorrhea due to damp-heat
owing to its effect of eliminating dampness. In external treatment,
the drug can be used to treat seborrheic dermatitis. A solution
of 60g of the fresh drug mixed in 60% alcohol (or spirit)
for 7 days can be applied to the affected area.
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